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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN PIERCE, OF NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, THOMAS DOB- BINS, OF NEWBURG, AND MARTIN E. DEEGENQA OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HOD-ELEVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,248, dated November 7, 1882.

' Application filed October 3,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bod-Elevators, of which the following is a t'ull, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate cor- Io responding parts in all the figures.

Figure l isa front elevation of my improvement, part being broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation ot' the same, taken through the line .fr Fig. l.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the removal of loaded hods from bod-elevators'.

The invention consists in a bod-elevator constructed with a frame having a vertically-moving cross bar, provided with bod receiving books and supported upon eccentrics, whereby the hods can be lowered to bring their handles into contact with the elevator-platform and free the hods from their supporting-hooks.

To the loner part of the main frame is attached an auxiliary frame, to keep tbe hodhandles in nearly a vertical position while the hods are being elevated, as will be hereinafter fully described.

3o A represents the frame ofthe elevator, which slides up and down upon ways B, in the ordinary manner.

O is the hoisting chain or rope, which is attached to the eye ot' a rod, D, passing through the cross-bars ot' the frame A.

E is a cross-bnr, the ends of which, or tenons formed upon the said ends,.slide up and down in short slots in the side bars of the frame A.

4o To the upper partot the cross-bar E, which is beveled to the same angle as the side ot' a bod, F, are attached pairs ot' angle-ironsor books Gr, upon which the hods are hung while being elevated. The cross-bar E rests upon two eccentrics, H, pivoted to the inner sides of the bars of the frame A, and which are provided with handles I for convenience in turning them. The cross-bar E and the eccentrics H are placed at such a height above the plat- 5o form J of the elevator thatl when the said cross-bar is raised, by turning the longest diameter of the eccentrics H upward the ends of the hed-handles will be above the platform J, so that the hods will hang upon the hooks Gr while being raised. The handles ot the hods y are kept in or nearly in a vertical position while the said hods are hanging upon the'hooks Gr by resting against a frame, K, attached to the lower parts of the side bars of the frame A. With this construction, when the loaded hods F are to be removed from the elevator the bod-carriers grasp the handles ot' the hods and turn the eccentrics H to bring their shortest diameters upward. This movement lowers the cross-bar E, bringing the ends of the hodhandles in contact with the platform J, lowering the hooks Gr away from the hods, and leaving the hods supported upon the ends of their handles, so that the bod-carriers can turn the hods and put their shoulders beneath the hods without its being necessary to raise the said hods until they are ready to carry them away.

This improvement makes the bod-elevator very convenient in use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A hed-elevator constructed substantially as herein shown and described, and consisting of a frame having a vertically-moving crossbar, provided with bod-receiving hooks and supported upon eccentrics, and a guard-frame attached to the main frame as a rest for the bod-handles, as set forth.

2. In a bod-elevator, the combination, with the frame A, of the vertically-moving crossbar E, provided with bod-receiving hooks Gr and supported upon eccentrics H, substantially as herein shown and described,whereby the hods can belowered to bring their handles into contact with the elevator-platform and free the hods from their supporting-hooks, as set forth.

3. In a hod-elevator, the combination, with the main frame A, of the auxiliary frame K, substantially as herein shown and described, whereby the bod-handles are kept in nearly vertical positions while the hods are being elevated, as set forth.

JAMES T. GRAHAM, G. SEDGWICK. 

